Author: KMAN Staff

It was a celebration at the Sunset Zoo Sunday afternoon as the day before Earth Day coincided with the zoo’s 80th birthday. Many activities were enjoyed by guests such as face painting, live animal encounters with animal roamers walking around the zoo, and a nineteen foot inflatable replica of Earth. Afterwards, the Manhattan High School Drumline lead guests on a parade around the zoo. Cox Communications was a sponsor for the festivities and brought the “Stone Lion Puppet Theatre” from Kansas City who showcased different endangered species and how humans can play a huge part in helping the situation. Hyvee also sponsored the event…

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London Olympics silver medalist and K-State senior Erik Kynard not only won the Mt. Sac Relays on Saturday in Walnut, CA with a leap of 7 feet-8 inches, he also registered the highest mark by anyone else in the world in 2013.  Kynard, 2011 IAAF World Champion Jesse Williams and Canada’s Michael Mason all cleared 7 feet-7 inches, but it was only was Kynard who jumped 7-8.  The Toledo, Ohio native tied his own school record in the process. “Erik jumped well. I think this was one of his best meets ever,” said K-State Head Coach Cliff Rovelto. “We had a lot…

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BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz has been in the middle of some of Fenway Park’s greatest moments. None of them seemed more important to ”Big Papi” than his role in one Saturday afternoon. Ortiz helped the Red Sox honor the victims and the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings then played in his first game since last summer, a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals capped by Daniel Nava’s three-run homer in the eighth inning. ”I try to take the positive side of things and ride with it,” Ortiz said, sitting at a table in an interview room. ”But…

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Oklahoma State scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to complete a five-run rally and defeat the Kansas State Wildcats 7-6 Saturday afternoon in the middle game of a Big 12 Conference Baseball series at Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater. Things looked good for the Wildcats as they jumped out to a 6-2 advantage after three innings thanks largely in part to a four run outburst in the top of the third frame. However, the Pokes scored three times in the bottom of the fifth and then took the lead for good with their two-run eighth. The Bat…

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